Links For January 2024

The podcast covers a wide range of topics including dad jokes, the Flynn effect, low fertility rates, genetic childbearing interventions, Mayan architecture, open AI board drama, neural net revolution history, FDA regulation of lab tests, and AI accelerationism. It also discusses controversies surrounding e-accelerationism, tragic stories of the Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, achievements of effective altruism, surprising Jewish groups, elite group formation and Jewish achievement theories, and universal basic income study results. Additionally, it explores the complexity of poverty and crime correlation, funding rounds, a Wikipedia tool, the future of the Republican Party, an Oakland teachers union protest, Stanley Williams' double life, and Miri's evolution.